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    Welcome to the Special Spring 2015 Directors Series SHOOT>e.dition

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    Robert Goldrich
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    Welcome to the Special Spring 2015 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series. Our mix of profiles includes: Ava DuVernay, lauded for her feature Selma (Paramount Pictures); Lisa Cholodenko, who won the DGA Award last month for the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge; Lesli Linka Glatter, another DGA winner for an episode of Showtime’s Homeland; and the directing duo The Mercadantes–Daniel and Katina Mercadante–who were nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials.

    Cholodenko and Glatter were two of four women to win DGA Awards in major categories this year (the others being Laura Poitras who topped the Documentary competition with Citizenfour; and Jill Soloway for Comedy Series on the basis of an episode of the Amazon show Transparent). And Katina Mercadante is one of only three women to receive a nomination in the DGA Commercials category since its inception in 1980.

    Our lineup of profiles also includes: Nicolai Fuglsig who won this year’s DGA Award for his commercialmaking; and noted feature filmmakers who have successfully diversified into the spot/branded content space–Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind); Doug Liman (Go, Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow); and the team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor, which earned them a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination, and Ten Thousand Saints, which recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival).

    Meanwhile our lineup of promising, up-and-coming directorial talent includes: an accomplished agency creative director whose directorial touch came to the fore with a moving, thought-provoking PSA; a collective who made a splash with a “Speed Dating” viral for Ford Mustang; two brothers who as a directing duo have seen their spec work embraced by real-world clients; and a filmmaking trio who have earned plaudits for their feature documentary work and are poised to enter the advertising arena via a new company affiliation.

    In our Cinematographers & Cameras Series, we meet an Oscar-winning (Life of Pi) DP who just finished a creative journey to Tomorrowland with director Brad Bird; an ASC Award winner last month for an episode of Boardwalk Empire (HBO), marking the fourth time in five years that he has garnered the coveted honor in a TV category; and a cinematographer who not only picked up his first career ASC Award for the pilot of the TV series Manhattan (WGN America) but also comes off a year which saw him lens St. Vincent (The Weinstein Company), which earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture Comedy and Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

    Also featured is coverage of last month’s DGA “Meet The Feature Nominees” session. Panelists were: Alejandro González Iñárritu who went on to win the coveted Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and the other four Guild nominees–Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel; Clint Eastwood for American Sniper; Richard Linklater for Boyhood; and Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game.

    So read on and enjoy. As always, we welcome your feedback.

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.

    The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.

    "This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."

    The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."

    And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.

    Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.

    Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.

    Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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